Quote by Charles Baudelaire
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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